Welcome to Decent Exposure : High School, Volume I:
magistrate: Slide 2
jubilant: Slide 3
chattel: Slide 4
timbre: Slide 5
meander: Slide 6
resilient: Slide 7
embellish: Slide 8
denounce: Slide 9
mystic: Slide 10
dubious: Slide 11
ruminate: Slide 12
sever: Slide 13
resplendent: Slide 14
discord: Slide 15
invective: Slide 16
wistful: Slide 17
didactic: Slide 18
undulate: Slide 19
guileless: Slide 20
blight: Slide 21
ethereal: Slide 22
ascetic: Slide 23
notorious: Slide 24
chasm: Slide 25
reticent: Slide 26
magistrate: judge
Relatives: mag: big, great in size
majestic, magnificent, magnitude
You told us that when you said you did not care to go before
theBefore
magistrate,
“press
charges,” as you
it. to work on this
the war I to
was
a magistrate,
and put
I used
kind of problem.
A Soldier of the Great
TheWar
Bourne Supremacy
--Mark Helprin
--Robert Ludlum
His mother was a federal magistrate, his father, a law professor.
Outcasts United
-- this
Warren
St. John
I have been named magistrate of
town.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
--Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Any form of the word “magistrate” will appear once in every 235 pages of text.
Animation: 4 (word appear); 5 (sentence appear); 6 (word disappear) 7 (sentence disappear)
His mother was a federal magistrate, his father, a law professor.
Outcasts United
-- Warren St. John
jubilant: overjoyed
Forms:
N: jubilation
V: 00
Adj: jubilant
Adv: jubilantly
syn: elated, ecstatic
ant: morose, sullen, depressed,
indifferent, apathetic
The city was in the midst of a
jubilant gala.
The Looking Glass Wars
--Frank Beddor
But although Tom’s ear tingled, his heart was jubilant.
I felt their arms
around
my neck,
The with
Adventures
their the
hugs and
of Tom
the marvelous
Sawyer
May
the halls
echo
jubilationof our race.
--Mark
Twain
jubilation of reunion.
Black Like Me
Eldest
--John Howard Griffin
--Christopher Paolini
Any form of the word “jubilant” will appear once in every 2,232 pages of text.
chattel: slave; livestock; a burdensome
possession
On the way we meet the inhabitants trundling
their goods and chattels along with them in wheelbarrows,
in perambulators, and on their backs.
Quiet on
Front
You then stood without a Allchattel
to the
yourWestern
name, and
I was the
--Erich Maria Remarque
Yet
master
thatofintelligent,
the house enterprising,
in Corn Street.
noble-hearted
The Mayorman
of Casterbridge
was a
Hardy
chattel. Incidents in the Life of a Slave--Thomas
Girl
She is a valuable--Harriet
industrialJacobs
possession
chattel to the man, or
who may profit by her labor; never a luxury—a bill of
expense.
The Power and the Glory
--Grace MacGowan Cooke
Any form of the word “chattel” will appear once in every 2,611 pages of text.
timbre: one of the properties of sound;
often used to describe a tone, loudness, or
pitch of voice.
Only the
timbre of his voice showed his passion; he was as
So slow
we watch
and easy
theirasfaces,
Pruitt.
theirThe
hands,
Thundering
their feet,
Herd
and listen for truth in
--Zane Grey
timbre.
She stood listening to the alternating timbres
and Eye
resonances
The Bluest
of the men’s voices. The Looking Glass War --Toni Morrison
The voice had its very own timbre,
withBeddor
a heavy, weary rasp.
--Frank
Life of Pi
--Yann Martel
Any form of the word “timbre” will appear once in every 10, 563 pages of text.
meander: wind, wander, travel in an indirect path
Forms: N:00; V: meander, meanders, meandered,
meandering; Adj: 00; Adv: 00
I watched the currents meander, the lazy ripples that once
It awas
onebroke
of a the
meandering
in
while
surface. rows of mossy, green-roofed
cottages lines up along a stream bank.
For the next few minutes, they chatted as they meandered
The Bean Trees
among the shelves.
True Believer --Barbara Kingsolver
--Nicholas Sparks The Secret Life of Bees
They watched Hagrid meander
tipsily up to
the Monk
castle. Kidd
--Sue
HP and the Prisoner of
Azkaban
--J.K. Rowling
Any form of the word “meander” will appear once in every 3,045 pages of text.
resilient: the ability to bounce back after a setback
syn: hardy
ant: fragile
Forms: N: resilience
V: 00
Adj: resilient Adv: resiliently
We were both more resilient than I gave us credit for.
It takes
Sheawas,
special
he thought,
strength capable,
and resilience.
strong, and resilient.
The Host Immortal in Death
But my dad’s a resilient
City
man,of
tough
Bones
and determined.
--Stephanie
Meyer
--J.D.
Robb
--Cassandra
Clare
Lone Survivor
--Marcus Luttrell
Any form of the word “resilient” will appear once in every 3,359 pages of text.
embellish: decorate
Forms: N: embellishment,embellishments
V: embellish, embellishes, embellished,
embellishing Adj: 00
Adv: 00
He began embellishing
syn: adorn
--a teaspoon of blood became ant: denude
Related:
bella: beauty
a cup; the stain on her white pants grew from a modest spot to a
We discussed John’s and myNineteen
year abroad,
and me carefully
Minutes
journey to--Jodi
sound
like the
ideal
honeymoon.
Heembellishing
wore a helm the
embellished
with Picoult
gold,
silver
and
rubies and,
Rose Red
on his fingers, five large rings.
--Stephen King
When she saw the teacher looking so interested,
Brisingr she embellished
--Christopher Paolini
the story.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
--Betty
Smith
Any form of the word “embellish” will appear
once in
every 1,259 pages of text.
denounce: publicly reject or accuse
Forms: N: denunciation, denunciations
V: denounce, denounces, denounced,
denouncing Adj: 00
Adv: 00
syn: repudiate
ant: praise, laud
Related:
Mr. Rearden, the law which you are noun: name
announce, noun,
denouncing is based on the highest
pronounce
Chris would fixate on his father’s own less-than-sterling
principle—the principle of the public good.
Martin
hastened
Terry,
declaring
that hesilently
would resign-behavior
manytoyears
earlier
and
would
denounce him.
Atlas
Shrugged
They published a scathing denunciation of the population
--Ayn Rand
would denounce --would expose—Yes!
limitation laws. Ender’s Game
--Orson Scott Card
Into the Wild
Arrowsmith
--Jon Krakauer
--Sinclair Lewis
Any form of the word “denounce” will
appear once in every 386 pages of text.
mystic: related to the heavens or religious beliefs;
a person thought to be able to communicate with
God, angels, or other spiritual forces
Forms: N: mystic; mysticism
V: 00 Adj: mystical Adv: mystically
syn: divine; otherworldly;
Once he surrendered reason,
ethereal;
She was
a practicingcelestial
Sufi mystic.
he was left at the mercy
of…
ant: mundane; earthly
Red: The Heroic Rescue
a body
by unaccountable
Hemoved
hypnotized
me with his --Ted
mystical
Dekkervampire powers.
instincts and a soul moved by
mystic
revelations.
Now we’re resorting to
Black: The Birth of Evil
--Ted Dekker
Breaking Down
Atlas
Shrugged
--Stephanie
Meyer
mystics?--Ayn Rand
Any form of the word “mystic” will appear
once in every 340 pages of text.
dubious: full of doubt; uncertain; unsteady; unlikely;
questionable
Forms: N: doubt
V: doubt, doubts, doubted, doubting
Adj: dubiously.
dubious Adv: dubiously
“Oh come on,” I said
syn:
skeptical; cynical
Twilight
ant: --Stephanie
certain; cocky;Meyer
gullible; inevitable
The only dubious
ray of hope has come from my sister.
Theand
Hunger
Games
She scanned the menu
settled
dubiously
--Suzanne Collins
on the stuffed shells supreme.
His writing Immortal
ability wasin Death
dubious
to say the least, but he
--J.D. Robb
considered himself lucky. The Book Thief
--Markus Zusak
Any form of the word “dubious” will appear once in every 922 pages of text.
ruminate: think about something over and over
What I know is
ruminated,
Forms: N: rumination
V: ruminate, ruminates, ruminated,
plotted,ruminating
and set down.
Adj: ruminative Adv: 00
syn: contemplate, perseverate, mull
Henry
V
I was afraid I’d ruminate,
ant: ignore, forget
--WS
agonize, rationalize and talk
Relatives: ruminant (cud-chewing
animal); rumor
myself into not going. The Kite-Runner
--Khaled Hosseini
He remained in a state of empty and peaceful rumination
until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning.
Metamorphosis
--Franz Kafka
He rested a while in critical rumination. Catch-22
--Joseph Heller
Any form of the word “ruminate” will appear once in every 2,617 pages of text.
sever: to cut
Forms: N: severance
V: sever, severs, severed, severing
Adj: 00 Adv: 00
The
syn: truncate, terminate, amputate
severed ropes fell away.ant: extend, unite, splice
Angela severed the connection.
HP and the Deathly Hollows
--J.K. Rowling
Brisingr
Now Palmgren was gone,
and another tie to established society
--Christopher Paolini
had been severed.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Larsson severing tendons and
The bullet had hit him --Stieg
in the shoulder,
ligaments, shattering bone.
The Looking-Glass War
--Frank Beddor
Any form of the word “sever” will appear once in every 626 pages of text.
resplendent : luxuriously decorated
Forms: N: resplendence
V: 00
Adj: resplendent Adv: resplendently
He wore a
resplendent
syn: opulent, ostentatious, lavish
dressing gown and embroidered slippers.ant: modest, spare, austere, sparse
Relatives: splendid; splendor
The Early Cases of Hercule
Poirot
Razor
creasesChristie
on his pants and resplendent
--Agatha
Drown
white
shirts
were
his
trademarks.
thea sun;
she heard
She saw
the leaves inresplendent
He was
resplendent
new clothes in
and
greatcoat
with the
a Diaz
--Junot
dashing
cape
his heavy
sounds
of thrown
the city,back
faintfrom
and sweet,
likeshoulders.
thousands of distant
violins.
The Incredible Lightness of Being
--Milan Kundera
Gone With the Wind
Any form of the word “resplendent” will appear
once in every 1,864 pages of text.
--Margaret Mitchell
discord: quarrelsome atmosphere; tension between people
He had seen some minor
discord and name-calling.
We have remained close, however, and have glimpsed islands of
Theus.
Crystal
Shard
agreement
whilediscord
navigating
theamong
rapids
of
discord.
But then
crept
--R.A. Salvatore
This was the cause of constant
Thisthe
I discord.
Believe
HP and
Order II
of the Phoenix
Allison,
et. al.
Love in --Jay
the
Time
of Cholera
--J.K.
Rowling
--Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Forms: N: discord
V: 00
Adj: discordant Adv: discordantly
syn: dispute, disagreement
ant: harmony, accord
Any form of the word “discord” will appear
once in every 625 pages of text.
invective: a scolding with harsh words
Forms: N: invective
V: 00
Adj: 00 Adv: 00
syn: diatribe, vituperation, tirade
ant: praise, adoration, adulation
He
Then she
burst
broke
intoforth
intolerable
into sentences
invective.
composed
of
invectives
HeHeoccasionally
began
to
hate
them
vehemently,
and
to
assail
them
with
every
was divided between the impulse to laugh aloud and the
equally
joined
together
invective
in a long
string.
kind
of
he
could
think
of.scornful invective.
unseasonable impulse to burst
into
Of Human
Maggie:
A Girl
Bondage
ofMaintenance
the Streets
Zen and the Art
of Motorcycle
Middlemarch
--Stephen
--Somerset
Crane
Maugham
--Robert Pirsig
--George Elliot
Any form of the word “invective” will appear once in every 2,300 pages of text.
wistful: in a day-dreaming state of mind
syn: dreamy, nostalgic
Forms: N: wistfulness; V:00; Adj: wistful
Adv: wistfully
I could see them smiling wistfully at us.
Any form of the word “wistful “will appear
once in every 533 pages of text.
He looked so
wistful
A Walk to Remember
--Nicholas Sparks
as he went away, hearing the frolic
and evidently having none of his own.
And all the while the dog sat and watchedLittle
him,Women
a certain yearning
--Louisa May Alcott
wistfulness
his eyes, for
it looked
upon
a fire-provider,
of the
guys out
onhim
the as
football
field
He thoughtinwistfully
and
in the
the sweet,
fire was
fresh
slowwind,
in coming.
tossing the
ball around
To Build
a Firebefore
--Jack London
practice began.
The Chocolate
Wars
--Robert Cormier
didactic: teacher-ish, in a condescending way
syn: pedantic; professorial
Forms: N: didacticism; autodidact V: 00; Adj: didactic
Adv: didactically
Any form of the word “didactic” will appear once in every 3,784 pages of text.
His tone was becoming a little bit
didactic,
and this both amused and irritated her. Doctor Zhivago
--BorisofPasternak
Always didactic, he went into a learned exposition
the
diabolical purposes of cinnabar. One Hundred Years of Solitude
Garcia
Marquez
Monsieur the Principal thinks my--Gabriel
thesis aught
to be
dogmatic
The Three Musketeers
and didactic.
--Alexander Dumas
He could think of no possible way he could tell them what they
should work toward without falling back into the trap of
authoritarian, didactic thinking.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance –Robert M. Pirsig
undulate: to move in a slow, waving motion
syn: unstable, unpredictable, combative
ant: placid, stable, predictable, docile
Forms: N: undulation;
V: undulate, undulates, undulated, undulating
Adj: Adv:00
Below, the surface of the water was an undulating mirror
of brightness. The Pearl
--John Steinbeck
A silver ring fish floated by them, undulating, and closing
like an iris, instantly, around food particles, to assimilate them.
skin. Chronicles
Ripples of cold undulated over Harry’s
The Martian
Bradbury
HPclimbers
and the --Ray
Deathly
Hollows
Fighting exhaustion, the two
continued
up the
--J.K.
Rowling
undulating ridge above. Into
Thin
Air
Any form of the word “undulating will appear
once inKrakauer
every 1,051 pages of text.
--Jon
guileless: without trickery
syn: sincere, ingenuous, innocent
ant: insincere, disingenuous, sly, crafty
Forms: N: guile; V: beguile, beguiles, beguiled,
beguiling; Adj: 00; Adv: 00
Relatives: gullible, disguise, guise
as those of a boy.
His eyes were wide and guileless
ironclad
His look was one of conviction, of guileless yet
Airborn
--Kenneth Oppel
A
Thousand
Splendid
Suns
earnestness.
--Khaled Hosseini
With her smooth face, she looked like a young girl, frail,
guileless, and innocent. The Joy Luck Club
--Amy Tan
Calm, guileless, and sometimes childishly animated, they
looked like fat fifty-year-olds pretending to be fourteen.
Any form of the word “guileless” will
appear
once in every 1,399Lightness
pages of text. of Being
The
Unbearable
--Kundera Milan
Blight: disease, visible marks of decay
Forms: N: blight, blights
syn: degeneration,
V: blight, blights, blighted,
affliction
blighting Adj: 00 Adv: 00
ant: robustness
Five figures wandered slowly over the blighted lands.
She says ‘twould break your heart to think what the English did
Hitchhiker’s
to thethey
Galaxy
to us, but if they didn’t putAthe
the potato,
didn’t
blight onGuide
--Douglass Adams
do anything to take it off.
This sort of person is a blight on good professionalism.
Angela’s Ashes
Remains of the--Frank
Day McCourt
--Kazuo Ishiguro
Like a blighted tree, Reich fell to the ground.
The Demolished Man
--Alfred
Bester
Any form of the word “blight” will appear
once in every
825 pages of text.
ethereal: of the air or heavens
syn: celestial, insubstantial, airy, otherworldly
ant: earthly, earthbound, quotidian, mundane
Forms: N: ether; V: 00; Adj: ethereal; Adv: ethereally
Relative: Ethernet
Mist floated just above the ground ,
ethereal and ghostlike.
A Bend
You have to kill them in their physical
and in the Road
--Nicholas Sparks
ethereal forms before they die.
Surrounded by a streetlight
Cityhalo,
of Bones
she looked almost ethereal.
--Cassandra
Clare
The
Wedding
--Nicholas Sparks
The wrought-iron fence added a spooky touch to an
ethereal Any
setting.
True Believer
form of the word “ethereal will appear once in every 1,941 pages of text.
--Nicholas Sparks
ascetic: N: a person who is 100% dedicated to
religious pursuits; Adj: severely devoted
to religion at the sacrifice of worldly
matters
ant: libertine, hedonist Forms: N: ascetic, ascetics,
asceticism V: 00
Any form of the word “ascetic” will appear once in every 1,113 pages of text.
A gluttonous ascetic ? Such a contradiction!
Ender’sthem
Game
His suits fitted him as though he had borrowed
from a stout z
--Orson Scott Card
friend, and his face, seldom suggestive of his profession, was now
But I am no longer the one I was, I am no ascetic anymore,
absorbed in
not
all so;
it could
of an ascetic
I amatnot
a priest
anyhave
more,been
I amthan
no Brahmin
any more.
occult pursuits. In Cold Blood
Siddhartha
--Truman Capote
--Herman Hesse
Hester sought not to acquire anything beyond a subsistence, of
the plainest and most ascetic
The Scarlet Letter
simple abundance for her child.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne
notorious: well-known for a negative quality or
behavior
Forms: N: notoriety
V: 00 Adj: notorious
syn: scandalous
Adv: notoriously
The men were jailed in one of Central Africa’s most
notorious prisons.
Outcasts United
--Warren St. John
Chinese officials are notoriously late.
The Bourne Supremacy
--Robert Ludlum
He’s notorious for saying no to everything.
Angela’s Ashes
--Frank McCourt
Secluded five miles up a rutted dirt track, the played-out mine
was a notorious party spot.
Crank
Any form of the word “notorious” will appear once in every 505 pages of text.
--Ellen Hopkins
chasm: a deep empty space
Forms:
N: chasm, chasms
V: 00; Adj: 00
Adv: 00
syn: abyss, gulf, gorge
ant: mountain
Cold laughter echoed from the chasm.
The Lighting Thief
--Rick Riordan
But her first problem was getting across the chasm.
Uglies
--Scott Westerfield
There was nothing between us but a dark chasm.
October Sky
--Homer Hickham
A cliff was on their left and a chasm on their right.
Any form of the word “chasm” will appear once in every 1,078 pages of text.
The Two Towers
--J.R.R. Tolkien
reticent: reluctant to speak
Forms:
N: reticence
syn: taciturn, diffident
V: 00
ant: garrulous, loquacious
Adj: reticent
Adv: reticently
Nassar, reticent by nature, withdrew almost completely.
Zeitoun
A reticent fellow, he made no reply.
--Dave Eggers
Howard’s End
He took my hand as we walked to --E.M.
the river,
which surprised me
Forster
because he was normally reticent to show affection in public.
The Poisonwood Bible
--Barbara
Kingsolver
reticent.
Pour your heart out to me, Bessie.
Don’t be
Franny and Zooey
--J.D. Salinger
Any form of the word “reticent” will appear once in every 1,374 pages of text.